<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200405-08"> <title>Pound format string vulnerability</title> <synopsis> There is a format string flaw in Pound, allowing remote execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the Pound process. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">pound</product> <announced>2004-05-18</announced> <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised> <bug>50421</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="www-servers/pound" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.6</unaffected> <vulnerable range="le">1.5</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end. It allows to distribute the load on several web servers and offers a SSL wrapper for web servers that do not support SSL directly. </p> </background> <description> <p> A format string flaw in the processing of syslog messages was discovered and corrected in Pound. </p> </description> <impact type="high"> <p> This flaw may allow remote execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the Pound daemon process. By default, Gentoo uses the "nobody" user to run the Pound daemon. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. All users are advised to upgrade to the latest available version of Pound. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All users of Pound should upgrade to the latest stable version: </p> <code> # emerge sync # emerge -pv ">=www-servers/pound-1.6" # emerge ">=www-servers/pound-1.6"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://www.apsis.ch/pound/pound_list/archive/2003/2003-12/1070234315000#1070234315000">Pound announcement</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2026">CVE-2004-2026</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter"> koon </metadata> </glsa>